PART 6
Fred's jaw dropped at where he was and both Shaggy and Scooby had mixed feelings of fear and glee. They were both here on the deck of both a place and vehicle that could not exist. It might have been built sometime in their lifetime, but they had now beat everyone to experiencing the sensation of being on one of the most famous icons on television to ever exist. It was the USS Enterprise, quite possibly the most famous starship next to the Millennium Falcon. They stepped from the transporter room unable to speak; they could only continue soaking in the visions and sights and the faint hum of distant starship engines propelling them through space. Daphne was equally impressed. She felt as if she were on the set of the television series. She felt a bit apprehensive as well as if she should not have been here. She was so far out of her element here.
"Jinkies!" Velma was equally star struck at the holographically-created environs. A few crewman hastened by her as the vast starship lightly jarred around them from something they couldn't see. Nick just stood by grinning proudly at what he had created. He liked the fact that he held them in awe and that he had something that impressed them. The fact that they hadn't talked in several minutes since they arrival was more than the expectations he wanted.
"Nick..." Velma tried to catch her breath. "How did you do this? Tangible holographic-created illusions are impossible! How did you do this?"
"It was just a few steps away from CGI technology." Nick turned and talked as he looked for something in the hall. "I created a Enterprise prototype on a computer, and then had the computer core scan and download every picture, photo, DVD, VHS tape and whatever else I could find to create the fill size holographic mock-up. I then used a USI computer personality file to create personalities for the characters so they could react and respond to situations exactly as they would be expected to behave."
"That explains the contradictions in town in and the holographic interior of the school." Velma started realizing how everything fit together. "You didn't have photos of everything and your computer system must extrapolate data to fill holes in your data."
"Correct," Nick confirmed. "Unfortunately, I neglected to create a way to separate the files and characters."
"What's that mean?" Shaggy asked.
"The computer tends to merge profiles and locations with common backgrounds." Nick answered. Almost by example, an elevator turbo-lift opened up and Nick and the gang were treated to another surprise. The robot from the TV series Lost in Space came rolling out accompanied by Dr. Zachary Smith and they were very far into character before the star struck amateur detectives.
"We're doomed, I tell you, doomed!" Smith wandered out between Fred and Daphne. "We shall never see Earth now."
"PATIENCE, DOCTOR SMITH..." The robot rolled out talking as well. "CAPTAIN KIRK PROMISED TO GET US SAFELY TO EARTH."
"And what do you know about it you clanking, cantankerous, clucking collage of canned colostomy." Smith shot back at his eternal comic partner as Nick gestured for Scooby and the gang to enter the turbo-lift.
"Just last week I caught them and the Robinsons with the Ewoks from Revenge of the Jedi." Nick continued as he stepped back and asked the simulation to deliver them to the bridge of the Enterprise. Shaggy was having fun exploring and examining everything and Scooby was bouncing excitedly to be a part of it all. Velma brushed the wall with her fingertips to study the touch of these solid illusions, but then Daphne realized she had been violated and stood up to Nick.
"I just have one question..." Daphne tossed her red hair one way, leaned on to one leg and looked toward Nick with restrained upset anger. "Why do you have a fifty foot tall simulation of me running around eating people?"
"Yes," Velma responded curiously and analytical wanting to hear an answer to that question. "Who else from real life do you have ensconced in your holographic simulations?"
"Well, I, uh..." Nick started scraping for a response, but his answer would have to wait because another of his secret creations had chosen this awkward time to present herself to her real life counterpart. The turbo-lift opened up to the main bridge with Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard both commanding their respective crew members in battle against the Death star from Star Wars. Amidst these merged crews, Velma's head turned and her jaw dropped at one woman before her in particular. She refused to believe what she was seeing and as well refuse to accept the likeness and subtle alteration to the simulated persona she was seeing.
"Admiral, is there any dictation I can take for you?" Ensign Velma Dinkley was garbed in a blue Starfleet uniform that tightly wrapped and held her modest body and figure as she presented herself to Nick. Her hair was longer than her real life counterpart and she lacked eyeglasses, but most noticeable was her large bosom, about the size of a thirty-six inch bust, which jutted forward demanding attention. Her figure was flawless and her abdomen quite thin. Even Velma was envious of that figure. Daphne turned her head in a slow burn simultaneously with Velma toward Nick while they wondered what sort of lewd and unwanted attention they were given to them beyond their knowledge.
"Uh, not at this time..." Nick grinned as Velma and Daphne looked to him both upset and a bit disgusted at what he was doing to them beyond their knowledge.
"Shaggy, look! We're in the Star Wars movie too!" Fred pointed to the view screen as Enterprise Security Chief Worf fired proton torpedoes on the massive Death Star.
"This is officially our coolest adventure yet! Ain't it, Scooby!" Shaggy cried out in glee as Scooby made laughing noises and bounced dancing in one spot.
"Captain," Lieutenant Commander Data sat at his seat at ops. "We just lost contact with Will Robinson in his X-Wing. Captain Solo, however, is now able to patch us in with DS-12."
"Make it so..." Picard stood ready for the transmission. The screen popped on to more TV icons. Joel Robinson, Mike Nelson, and the Bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 appeared on the screen in Starfleet Uniforms.
"Commander Robinson," Picard stood before him. "We are quickly losing our face-off against the Empire. We are requesting assistance."
"Assistance?" Robinson reacted hesitant. "Where were you when we were on the Planet of The Apes?"
"I don't know, Picard..." Nelson started playing with the transmission. "Uh, I think the Empire may be trying to block our signal..."
"Ambassador," Captain Kirk recognized Nick. "Please tell us you have had contact with He-Man and She-Ra of Eternia."
"What? Oh, uh, yeah..." Nick started sinking into this fantasy and took a roll beyond the role he had been playing. "Yes, they'll be here, but in the meantime, Picard, I'll need full command of your ship. My team here will assist me if both you and Kirk will move your crews to the main portion of the ship, I'll take control of the saucer system and cover your retreat."
"I'll make it so." Picard gave the order to remove his holographic crew members from the bridge.
"Nick," Fred looked around as the Star Trek characters started departing. Mike, Joel and the Bots blinked off the view screen and returned to the scene of X-Wings and fighter jets in interstellar dogfights over the Death Star. "What are you doing? We're not star fleet pilots."
"Trust me," Nick replied as Doctor Beverly Crusher and then Velma holographic counterpart both separately grabbed the seat of Nick's pants as they departed. Both Velma and Daphne were growing disgusted by the minute "I know what I'm doing."
"I am so erasing myself from your computer." Daphne mumbled out loud.
"Computer..." Nick spoke aloud to the ship simulation. "Full abreast into the Death Star, Warp Ten..."
"Into the Death Star?" Shaggy's eyes went wide and he looked to Scooby. "You crashing the Enterprise on purpose!" Scooby looked to him, to Nick and then started struggling to keep from fainting.
"You want to turn off the holo-deck, right?" Nick replied as the ship's shaking and vibrating started getting worse. Nick braced by the helm while Fred fell into Picard's seat with Daphne in his lap. Velma held on to a computer console while Shaggy raced for the turbo-lift to keep from getting killed. The ship was shaking apart around them. Nick stood as a defiant messenger into destruction as the Enterprise bridge ripped apart. A fire burst from one computer console and a piece of the helm crashed inside as electronic sparks flew from twisted computer banks. The vibrating and shaking was joined by Daphne and Velma screaming together. Shaggy and Scooby screamed louder than them together as the universe blinked out around them. There was a flash of light and Fred clutched Daphne tight. The noises stopped and he slowly opened his eyes.
He and Daphne were on the floor of their old high school once more. Shaggy and Scooby found themselves clawing at doors that no longer existed. Velma noticed the wispy images of a vanishing Enterprise console disappearing in the air. The picture of the school cougar mascot was in the floor once more and the missing water fountain was right where Fred knew it was supposed to be. The rest of the gym had been stripped bare of bleachers or basketball posts and painted in silver with numerous mirrors surrounding them. The domed roof with its nearly countless roof supports was nearly obscured with electronic lights, proximity sensors, holographic projectors and myriad mirrors and other devices.
"Nick..." Fred lifted himself and Daphne off the floor where Picard's chair had vanished under them. "You destroyed your illusions for us."
"No," Nick walked over to the electronically-locked doors leading to the hallway. "I just forced an end to that simulation. All the images are still stored in memory ready to be recreated when I want... but not until I get the voice commands confirmed." He hotwired the doors and they swung open by themselves. Just a few feet out, his sister Jessica stood by with his boss, Robert Hogan, Owner and Chief Stockholder of the Universal Science Institute, and two of his peers with their toolboxes, Russell Coleman and Matt Burton, both of them from out of the computer programming division of the company.
"We were getting worried about you." Hogan replied to the holographic survivors then beamed an impressed token of surprise. "How was it?"
"Better than I believed..." Nick told his boss. "But we still got major problems before opening this as a contained amusement park."
"All's well that ends well..." Fred looked around. "First thing we gotta do is get food to..." He looked back into the holographic gym. "Shaggy, Scooby, what are you guys doing?"
"We know how it works now!" Shaggy was grinning ear to ear. "Computer, one giant hamburger, giant sub sandwich, chocolate fantasy land for Scooby and I." There was a chiming ring to the air as the floor turned green and sprouted with grass. A chocolate river and waterfall formed nearby along with a sub sandwich twenty feet long and twelve feet high. A computer-generated hamburger reaching two stories tall appeared amidst lollipop trees, candy cane lamp posts and scattered five-hundred pound gummy bears. Gene Wilder appeared as Willie Wonka from behind the sub sandwich, leaned on it and turned his cane while a loose motley collection of kids appeared racing around Shaggy and Scooby.
"Shaggy, what are you doing?" Velma looked at them. "You can't eat it; it's not real."
"We know..." Shaggy and Scooby was in love. "But we can try!" They charged at the sandwich and dove into it crawling through the roast beef and ham. A few feet away, a fat boy was sucked up a pipe and girl chewing gum turned into a giant blueberry. Gene Wilder just wandered through twirling his cane before the material witnesses listening to his singing.
"A world of pure imagination..." His song continued revealing a lot more than just a little music tune.
END